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IndieGames.com is presented by the UBM TechWeb Game Network, which runs the Independent Games Festival & Summit every year at Game Developers Conference. The company (producer of the Game Developers Conference series, Gamasutra.com and Game Developer magazine) established the Independent Games Festival in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers.

This week on "Best Of Indie Games," we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week.

The goodies in this edition include a procedural generated platformer with NES aesthetic, a Unity-based browser game developed for the 48-hour Indie Speed Run competition, a twin-stick shooter for Windows and the Xbox Live Indie Games service, plus locomalito's latest tribute to arcade classics from the mid-80's.

Here's some recent highlights from IndieGames.com:

Game Pick: 'Monster Evolution' (Nobstudio, browser)
"Monster Evolution is a browser-based title that will have you running about a metropolitan environment filled with stick figures in an attempt to eat everyone and take over the world."

Game Pick: '7Soul's Tower' (7Soul, browser)
"A platformer where you can't control your character's direction but only the precise moment they jump doesn't sound like the most obvious idea for a game mechanic, but 7Soul's Tower impressively pulls it off."

Game Pick: 'Train-Cognition' (Chris Figueroa and Ryan Schaefer, browser)
"Train-Cognition is a short 'Wild West Platforming Shooter' in which players fend off attackers aboard a speeding train using a simple mouse-and-keyboard setup."

Game Pick: 'Crawle' (Sekaru, commercial indie)
"If you're keen on a sandbox experience that will not only have you dealing with hunger and thirst but concerns like blood content and sanity, Crawle may be right up your alley."

Game Pick: 'Big Sky: Infinity' (Boss Baddie and Ripstone, commercial indie)
"Big Sky: Infinity is a survival-based, horizontally scrolling twin-stick shooter in which players must destroy randomly generated waves of enemies and drill through any asteroids and planets that get in their way."

Game Pick: 'Bleed' (Bootdisk Revolution, commercial indie)
"Bleed is a twin-stick shooter/platformer in which you'll invade the homes of retired video game heroes and brutally assassinate them. The platforming is briskly paced, thanks to the brilliant control setup."

Game Pick: 'Three Body Problem' (Robin Burkinshaw, browser)
"Robin Burkinshaw's Three Body Problem is a deadly dance among your fuchsia avatar and two ruthless enemies. You build points by touching fuchsia squares while avoiding a crash with either orange opposition."